The calendar resets and here we are again at January and its blank canvas, its clean horizon. The world breathes a collective sigh of relief as 2016 becomes memory. It was as fast as passing a landmark on the high way: blink and you miss it. We’re in new territory now. This side of the […]
I have been in a fallow season of late – a resting season. My novel is done (for now – honestly is it ever done?), and I am resisting the mighty temptation to begin work on a sequel. It’s too early for a sequel; the novel itself needs some time to cool down before edits […]
Last year, I wrote a story for my mother for Christmas. “The Lantern Hanger’s Wife” is about our patriot ancestors, John and Sarah Pulling, who participated in the Boston tea party and hung the lanterns for Paul Revere in Boston’s old North Church. It is a story celebrating the tangled stories of genealogy, a family’s sacrifice […]